Roofing-paint



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAREALION L. RICE, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

ROOFING-PAINT.-

SPECIPICA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,544, dated June 7, 1887.

Application filed April 14, 1886. Renewed March 12, 1887. Serial No. 230,614. (No specimens.)

fully set forth and claimed.

My composition consists of the following ingredients, in substantially the proportions specified-vizz Coal-tar, two-thirds of a barrel; slatein a pulverized state, twenty pounds; salt, twenty pounds; Portland cement, twenty pounds; magenta, twenty pounds; potash, ten pounds; sulphur, twenty pounds, and sufficient linseed-oil to reduce the mass to a proper consistence. I All of the above named ingredients are placed in a proper receptacle and thoroughly mixed and commingled together by agitation until they reach the proper state for use.

The paint compound above described is especially adapted for use in coating wooden, tin, and metallic roofs to render them water and fire proof, and I have found by experimentthat good results are attained by its use when properly compounded and applied.

The above-mentioned estimates and proportions of the several ingredients are based upon a barrel having a capacity of forty-two gallons to fifty-two gallons.

The quantity of linseed-oil used depends upon the character of the work that the paint is to be used upon and in the relation to which it is adapted.

When it is desired to paint a shingle or other wooden roof, it has been found best to increase the quantity of the coal-tar and decrease the quantity of the linseed-oil, the other ingredients and the proportions thereof remaining substantially the same as above mentioned. Thequantity of coal-tar and linseed oil to be used. in painting wooden roofs is less of the former and more of the latter. When Weather is cold, I warm paint before applying it.

I am aware that two or more of the ingredients of my composition have been used for making a paint for roofs, 850.; but I am not aware that all of the ingredients of my composition in the proportions stated have been used together.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The hereinbefore-described composition of matter to be used in painting roofs and the like, consisting of coal-tar, slate, salt, cement, magenta, potasl1,sulphur, and linseed-oil, in the proportions specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J AREALION L. RICE.

Witnesses:

O. H. P. HALE, CHAS. A. WOOSLEY. 

